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AD 94-27052

Published 1994-11-01 · 4 models · 18 US-registered tails affected · Federal Register

Airworthiness Directives; Transport Category Airplanes Federal Register ↗

Abstract

This document proposes to revise an existing airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to all transport category airplanes. The existing AD currently requires installation of placards prohibiting smoking in the lavatory and disposal of cigarettes in the lavatory waste receptacles; establishment of a procedure to announce to airplane occupants that smoking is prohibited in the lavatories; installation of ashtrays at certain locations; and repetitive inspections to ensure that lavatory waste receptacle doors operate correctly. That action was prompted by fires occurring in lavatories, which were caused by, among other things, the improper disposal of smoking materials in lavatory waste receptacles. The actions specified by the AD are intended to prevent such fires. This action would provide for an alternative action regarding the current requirement to install specific placards at certain locations.

Applicability · by US fleet size

  • CONVAIR 340 7 tails
  • CONVAIR 440 5 tails
  • GRUMMAN G-159 4 tails
  • CURTISS D 2 tails

Compliance instructions

Required actions, compliance times, parts/serial numbers and methods of compliance are in the Federal Register publication — not paraphrased here. Read AD on Federal Register ↗